Yarn moistening device



E. O. NEBEI.

May 26, 1931.

YARN MOISTENING DEVICE 2 Sheets-Sheet l Filed Oct.

May 26, 1931. E. e` NEBEL 1,807,492

YARN MOISTENING DEVICE Filed Oct. 17, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented May ze, V1931 ERNST OSCAR NEBEL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA YARN MOISTENING DEVICE Application filed October 17, 1928. Serial No.`313,100.

This invention relates to a device for moistening yarn as it passes from the cone to the knitting needles of the knitting machine, or which can be used at any place where it is desired to moisten a thread prior to its undergoing some subsequent operation.

The object of the invention is to produce a device which will at all times cause the thread to be entirely submerged Vin the moistening I U fluid regardless of the depth of the fluid in the container.

The construction of the device will be fully described hereinafter, reference being'had to the accompanying drawings, of which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation taken on the line 2 2, Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. l.

The device comprises a container 1 consisting of a bottom. 2, end walls 3, 3 and side walls 4, 4 which project above the end Walls 3, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

Superimposed on the container 1 is a suitable framework 5 comprising longitudinally extending members 6, 6 which rest on the end walls 3, 3 of the container 1, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The longitudinal members are connected by transversely extending 3,0 members 7 and 8 respectively. Thevframe 5 is Valso provided with vertically extending angle members 9, 9 which form guides for va suitable oatlO. The float 10 comprises a pair of spaced oblong cup members 11', 11 which,

in the present instance, are open at the top,

as illustrated clearly in Fig. 2. The cup members 11, 11 are connected by a bridge element 12 which is provided with grooves 13, 13

which lit over the upper edge of one of the side walls of each of the cup members 11 as shown in Fig. 2, set screws 14, 14C being provided in the depending portionsrl, 15 and adapted to engage the side Walls ofthe cu s 11 which lie Within the grooves 13, 13 of t e 5 bridge element 12, whereby the said cups are rigidly held in fixed relation with respect to each other.

Intermediate the cups 11, l1 the bridge member 12 is provided with a vertically eX- tending opening 16 in whichv is mounted the shank 17 of an eye member 18 which projects belowlthe bottom of the cup members 11, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The shank 17 is adj ustably secured in the bridge member 12 by means of a set screw 19, whereby the relative posit-ion of the eye 18 with respect to the Vcup members 11, 11 may be regulated as desired. Located within the eye member 18 is a proeelain bushing 20. Located in the transverse members 7 and 8 of the frame 5 are respectively located porcelain bushings 21 and 22.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the transverse member 7 is adapted to be located directly above onel of the end walls 3 of the container 1, and the `transverse member 8 is spaced inwardly from the opposite end wall 3 of the container for purposes hereinafter set forth. Adjacent the transverse member 7 the longitudinal membersV 6, 6 of the frame 5 are provided witlidepending lugs 24 which engage the inside of the end wall 3 of the container. Immediately adjacent the depending lugs 24 and extending outside the said wall of the container the longitudinal members are provided with depending lugs 25, 25 through which cXtend set screws 26, 26, the ends of which engage the outside of the end wall of the container clamping Athe same against the depending lugs 24 on the inside of thel container, thus the frame 5 is held against relative movement with respect to the .container 1. The opposite end of each of the longitudinal members 6 of the frame 5 is provided with a downwardly projecting lug 27 which engages the outside of the adjacent wall of the container as'illustrated in 3. The container is adapted to hold a supply of suitable Vmoistening fluid which may be water, oil, or any of the other well known iuids used forv moistening yarn. The thread to be moistened `passes longitudinally of the container through the porcelain bushing 21 carried by the transverse member 7,Y thence downwardly through the iuid a" passing through the porcelain eye-20 carried by the oat 10, and then upwardly through the iiuid passing out through the porcelain bushing 22 in the transverse member 8 of the frameA 5. The porcelain bushing 2O is adapted to be set at a predetermined distance below the bottom of the float l() so that a thread passing through the eye will be submerged in the Yfluid to a predetermined depth which is maintained uniformly irrespective of the depth of the fluid m in the container due to the float 10 rising and falling as the depth of the fluid is changed.

As above noted the position of the eye 20 with respect to the float l() may be readily changed by adjusting the shank 17 in the bridge member l2. The porcelain bushings 2l and 22 are held in the transverse members 7 and 8 respectively by set screws 28, 28. The construction above described provides a very efficient and inexpensive device for moistening yarn.

The transverse member 8 with. its porcelain eye or thread guide 22 are located inwardly from the end wall 3 of the container 1 over which the thread passes in leaving the moistening device, thus as the thread passes through the thread guide 22 the surplus moistening fluid, carried up by the thread, is removed therefrom as the thread passes into the porcelain bushing Q2, dropping back into the fluid in the container, and in this way preventing the fluid from dropping outside the container.

I claim:

l. n a yarn moistening device, the combination of a container for a moistening fluid, said container being open at its top, a framework resting on the top edges of the walls of the container, guides on said framework extending downwardly into said container, a float positioned intermediate said guides, a thread guide carried by said float below the level of the fluid in the container, and thread guides 'arried by said frame adjacent oppositely disposed walls of the container.

2. ln a yarn moistening device, the combination of a container for a moistening fluid, said container being open at its top, a framework resting on the top edges of the walls of the container, guides on said framework extending downwardly into said container, a float positioned intermediate said guides, a thread guide carried by said float below the level of the fluid in the container, and thread guides carried by said frame adjacent oppositely disposed walls of the container, one of the latter guides being positioned inside the adjacent wall of the container.

3. In a yarn moistening device, the combination of a container for a moistening fluid said container being open at its top, a frame work resting on the top edges of the walls of the container, guides on said framework eX- tending downwardly into said container, a float positioned intermediate said guides, a thread guide carried by said float below the level of the fluid in the container, thread guides carried by said frame adjacent oppositely disposed walls of the container, one

ERNST OSCAR NEBEL. 

